Police arrested six people following an alleged gang rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh state last week.

BBC: The Taj Mahal, Agra, India

Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.

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Badama and nearby villages are peopled by Kols, tribal folk who migrated a few generations ago from Madhya Pradesh, a neighbouring state, to escape bondage to feudal lords.

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Orchha, a tiny town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, takes you completely by surprise with its medieval ambience.

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Coal and Mines Minister Uma Bharti has also left the cabinet to take up a party post in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

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India's Supreme Court has ordered the western state of Gujarat to share some of its endangered lions with the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh.

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The chairman of Reliance ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) made the announcement during the Global Investors Summit 2010 at Khajuraho in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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The IOC understands that Dow never owned or operated the facility in Bhopal, and that the State Government of Madhya Pradesh owns and controls the former plant site.

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Similarly, in Madhya Pradesh, the commission ruled against measures by the state government exempting large numbers of people from paying for electricity.

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State elections are scheduled later this year in the central states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan in the west and in the capital, New Delhi.

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